{"id":811830,"date":"2026-10-23T22:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T22:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/811830\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T22:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T22:52:14","slug":"jesse-bam-rodriguez-says-hell-accept-naoya-inoues-one-demand-for-mega-fight-ill-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/811830\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez says he’ll accept Naoya Inoue’s one demand for mega fight: “I’ll do it”"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Naoya Inoue growing increasingly impatient, Jesse \u2018Bam\u2019 Rodriguez has said he is willing to accept the Japanese star\u2019s demand for their possible 2027 showdown.<\/p>\n

While both have expressed a willingness to collide early next year, it seems Inoue could instead move up to 126lbs and accelerate his quest to become a five-division world champion.<\/p>\n

He has, after all, declined to wait around for Rodriguez<\/a>, who became a three-weight world champion by dethroning Antonio Vargas with a sixth-round knockout earlier this year.<\/p>\n

In doing so, the 26-year-old claimed the WBA 118lb title and, since then, has been linked to a unification match with WBO champion Christian Medina.<\/p>\n

But while promoter Eddie Hearn has suggested this as a potential opportunity for Bam in December, super-bantamweight king Inoue happens to be far less keen on the idea.<\/p>\n

Instead, the 33-year-old says Rodriguez must skip any December fight and move straight up to 122lbs<\/a> to face him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wouldn\u2019t be realistic [for Rodriguez] to fight in December and then again in March; if it\u2019s going to happen, it has to be a direct matchup,\u201d<\/p>\n

Offering his response to Fight Hub TV<\/a>, meanwhile, head coach Robert Garcia said Bam would gladly sacrifice the Medina fight in pursuit of a blockbuster tussle with Inoue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know Bam wants to fight Inoue. Bam has told me: If it\u2019s next, if we skip our next fight to go into [an Inoue fight] \u2026 I\u2019ll do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut [Team Inoue should] at least reach out to us. If it\u2019s worth it for us, and the negotiations go well, we\u2019re willing to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regardless of whether he faces Rodriguez, Inoue expects to return early next year after retaining his four world titles with a points victory over Junto Nakatani in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Naoya Inoue growing increasingly impatient, Jesse \u2018Bam\u2019 Rodriguez has said he is willing to accept the Japanese…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-811830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}